(OK, don’t leave me hanging here, nip out to your local mall and confirm or deny this.) They are still going today, and apparently their products are common in US department stores. After WWI they changed focus to produce only men's jewellery and accessories. Originally they manufactured and distributed men's and women's costume jewellery and during World War I they made dog tags for the US military. So, a quick bit of internet searching, and now I’m just blithely repeating internet information here, so it could well be rubbish, but apparently Swank is a US jewellery company founded in Massachusetts in 1897. Anyway, the pencil is a tip feed as you would expect from an older 1.18mm screw mechanism mechanical pencil. I don’t know the correct name for that pattern – perhaps light godron? The eraser is unused but rather old and hardened, and stuck tight in the body. Or you can pull it out of the body… Looks rather smart with that lined pattern. It’s a nice shiny golden colour, but no, it’s not gold. It measures 77mm long, (that’s pretty much smack on 3” for non-metric folk), and the body is 5mm square section. Here’s an interesting little mini mechanical pencil.
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